#GruesomeCrimes : Hollywood Man Beat Wife to Death After Being Told She Was Pregnant by Boyfriend

After brutally pummeling his pregnant wife to death with a pipe wrench in front of their four children Wednesday night, Claude Sejour called 911 and waited outside his home for authorities to arrive, according to a Hollywood Police report.

Claude Sejour, 48 years old

When police arrived, they found Sejour, 48, with blood on his white button-down shirt, his hands and cheek. And inside the house, they found his wife’s lifeless body on the bed and the couple’s four children nearby.

“I did it, I finished her and called police and went outside. … I’m not crazy,” Sejour told Hollywood Police as they approached him, according to the report.

Sejour’s alleged violence, according to the report, erupted just before 11 p.m., when his wife Marie Carmel Joseph put her boyfriend on speaker phone, and he told Sejour that her unborn baby was his, according to the report.

Sejour was charged with first-degree murder and is being held without bond at the Broward County Main Jail.

Before police were summoned to the house by Sejour, a neighbor was drawn there by screaming. Sejour waved the neighbor, identified in the report as Alvaro Garcia, to his frontyard and told him what he had done. Sejour was in the process of calling 911.

Garcia also called 911 and went inside the house on the 5800 block of Thomas Street and into the couple’s bedroom, where he found their eldest child, a 17-year-old girl, shaking her 40-year-old mother’s body in an attempt to wake her, the neighbor told police.

Garcia told police that he checked Joseph for a pulse, and couldn’t detect one, according to the report.

The three other children are ages 14, 12 and 4. They are all staying with relatives, according to authorities.

Almost a full day after the incident, yellow police tape still surrounded the house, with two Hollywood Police cruisers parked around the perimeter.

A group of about six people showed up at the house early Thursday evening and a couple of them went in. They left without commenting, aside from one man identifying himself as a nephew. It was unclear whether he was related to Sejour or Joseph.

After he was taken to the police station to be interviewed, Sejour requested a Haitian Creole speaker, telling officers that is his first language. An officer fluent in the language interviewed him, and Sejour allegedly confessed to killing his wife after they argued.

“The pair got into an argument because Joseph was on the phone with her boyfriend and he was upset because the boyfriend stated that Joseph was pregnant,” the report stated.